Archive for August, 2006

18 writers

Friday, August 25th, 2006

Whenever any writer or group of writers proves me wrong and attempts to fight unjust causes I must stand up and take note. I found this on Poets & Writers, Inc.:
Eighteen writers, including three who have won the Nobel Prize, recently signed a letter to the editor published in several newspapers around the world […]

Amalia Iglesias Serna — part 2

Monday, August 21st, 2006

  

Here are two more translations. These are my first attempts at working on the poetry from Amalia Iglesias Serna’s Dados y Dudas (1996). Mistakes will be made by me. However, if someone, somewhere, reads my crude attempts and is able to help bring these poems into English with the same beauty I […]

Boss Detroit Garage

Monday, August 21st, 2006

“Rock and roll the way God intended”
– Warren Ellis (diepunyhumans.com)

My brother Eli and his wife Mary make up L.A.’s greatest, the Monolators, next to Hang On The Box, my favorite band in the world.
Back in April I sent Eli a Detroit garage band CD I discovered. This week Eli wrote about […]

La Mer: an ocean bound tarot deck

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

I have had this idea for an ocean-themed Tarot deck for years but only recently did I start to actually sketch out the cards. I wanted to be as faithful to the Rider-Waite deck as possible and still keep a maritime flavor to it. Thus, for example, card 10, Wheel of Fortune is […]

The NuPoetry Movement

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

My friend, Rina Risper, founder of the NuPoetry Movement, sent me these emails:
Enjoy Lansing’s longest running urban poetry scence. Everyone welcome every third Tuesday starting Tuesday, September 19, 2006, the NuPoetry Movement featuring the NuPoets $5.00 cover, Open Mic. begins at 7:30 pm
Gregory’s Ice and Smoke
2510 N. Martin Luther King Blvd. Lansing, […]